Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohnwas a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth6 September 1729
CountryGermany
Moses Mendelssohn quotes about
actions based both former german-philosopher insofar latter man nature object relations state
Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.
legislation one-thing
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
revelations salvation judaism
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
sight glasses understanding
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight